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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2f 1.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Aug. 20. The
president's handy man, New
York Supreme Court Justice
Rosenman, has
been rummag
ing around
th r o u g h the
OPM, working
up a reorgani
zation plan,
and is about
ready with
something.
Authoritativ
ely recom
mended to
raiU JUallOD.
head a new
policy-making branch of the de
fense regime is William L. Batt,
president of the big ball bear
ing company, S. K. F. lndus
. tries, who has been in charge
of several production lines in
OPM, but has been doing more
than that Job. Mr. Batt knows
the problem thoroughly and en
Joys the confidence of the other
government officials.
The advance inner notices of
the Rosenman plan suggest also
that William Knudsen, the nom
inal OPM, would handle the
production end, as at present,
but under an entirely different
setup.
TIESE limited reports indi
cate the unwieldly and con
fusing existing organization is
at last to be broken down into
a policy branch and a produc
tion branch, but the reorganiza
tion will cut deeper than that.
OPM officials who have tried
to draw charts of the existing
organization have wound up
with something approximating
the finger-painting smears of
children in kindergarten, one
OPM authority has said a chart
made by a woman research ex
pert for a business magazine is
better than any they have pro
duced. In short, the duplication,
intertwining, overlapping of au
thority has been Just about as
bad as could be.
In recent weeks, the situation
has grown steadily worse, while
all involved are awaiting the
efficiency report of Mr. Roose
velt's chosen investigator.
CHAIRMAN Marriner Eccles
of federal reserve, contrived
a short cut for his current move
to get In and break up Install
ment buying and "easy-pur-
chase plans." (The economic
godfather of the new deal, Brit
ish economist John Maynard
Keynes, told everyone here In
flation could not even be re
strained unless the purchase of
-roods was slowed down in this
way).
Mr. Eccles, and no doubt, the
White House also, figured there
would be trouble from congress
(ConUauml Prom Pag Six)
Radio Highlights
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By Associated Press
(Time Is Pacific Standard)
Tonight, the war: 4:55 CBS;
6:15 MBS; 5:30 NBC-Blue; 6
MBS; 6:15 CBS; 8 NBC, CBS;
8:30 MBS; 8:55 NBC, CBS.
Thursdav, the wan 8 NBC
Blue, MBS; 7 MBS; 8 MBS;
9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CBS,
MBS: 12:55 p. m., NBC-Blue:
2 CBS; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS,
. NBC-Blue.
aV NBC-Red 8:30 a. m Philip
Kniskern on Defense Housing;
9:15 a. m., Pin Money Party;
2:30, Jay Allen on "Morale In
side Europe."
SICE GLANCES
bt
tribune reporters
Seth Bullis telling the city
councilmen how glad he was to
see them all together at one time
and peering over the shoulder
of a reporter to see that he was
making notes on the right sub
ject Pat Dlppel being welcomed
a home at the RR depot by her
family and friends after a two
months' vacation in the east.
Bob Banning taking in all the
concessions at the fiesta, even
listening, in at the fortune tell
ing booth
RUSSIANS RETAKE I
FIVE VILLAGES IN
COUNTERJHRUST
Germans Report Soviet Ma
chines in Effort to Cover
Retreat East Across River
Reykjavik. Iceland. Aug. 20
() A single Carman twin
motored bomber flaw low to
day over Reykjavik, th cap
ital of Iceland, and was chased
out to sea Immediately by
fighter planes. It dropped no
bombs.
Iceland is occupied by both
United States and British
trooos.
(This Is the first reported
Incident over strategic Iceland
since President Roosevelt on
July 7 announced that U. S.
naval forces bed occupied the
far northern Atlantic island
In agreement with Iceland and
Great Britain.)
By the Associated Press
Masses of Russian tanks were
reported by the Germans to be
counter-attacking nazi lines on
the lower Dnieper river front
late today, while elsewhere on
the 1,200-mile battle line a Rus
sian counter-offensive was said
to have recaptured five Soviet
villages.
The locale of the Red army's
counter-offensive, reported by
the official Soviet news agency,
Tass, was not disclosed except
that it was in a "western direc
tion" possibly on the central
front guarding Moscow.
The Germans said Red tanks
in large formations were at
tacking nazi troops storming up
to the Dnieper river in an at
tempt to cover the retreat of
sizeable Red forces eastward
across the river.
Hitler's invasion armies have
tightened the ring on Leningrad
with another 50-mile advance,
the Russians acknowledged to
day, driving to the Novgorod
region 100 miles south of the
old czarist capital.
While two other German and
German-Finnish columns drove
on Leningrad from the west
and north, the Soviet high com
mand's communique said the
fiercest battle raged about Nov
gorod, an ancient walled town
above Lake Ilmen.
The Russians said the Nov
gorod province terrain was fav
orable for a determined stand,
since it is half-covered with for
est and dotted with about 1,200
lakes. The town itself, standing
high on a hill over the Volkhov
river, is surrounded by swamps
and lowlands.
The Red army bulletin also
indicated that the Germans
were beginning to use air-borne
troops in the 60-day-old con
flict, reporting that a number
of big 4-motored Junkers trans-
ports loaded with light tanks
ana men naa oeen snoi aown.
Coincidentally, British mili
tary experts predicted the Ger
mans would make an unprece
dented use of air-borne forces in
an attempt to smash their way
across the formidable barrier of
the Dnieper river, in the south
ern Ukraine.
Authoritative London quar
ters said the Germans had
avoided the mass use of para
chutists, troop-carrying planes
and gliders, such as they ex
ploited in the battle of Crete,
to await Just such an emergency
las the Dnieper crossing.
I Budyenny Lacks Guns
I German military dispatches
jsaid the left wing of General
von Rundstedt's army, esti
mated at 1.500,000 men, was ad
vancing against stiff resistance
toward the great bend of the
Dnieper river, site of the big
industrial city of Dnieper-
opetrovsk.
Advices reaching London In
dicated that Marshal Semeon
Budyenny had succeeded in
withdrawing a great many of
ihis troops across the river, but
that his forces were believed to
be weak in guns and depending
too much on old-fashioned horse
cavalry.
German dispatches said that
rail siege guns were intensify
ing the attack on Odessa, Rus
sia's big Black sea port, and
that increased pressure was also
being exerted on Kiev, the Uk
raine capital. Nazi aerial ob
servers said Odessa harbor was
littered with the burned wreck
age of ships. x
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This photo shows part of the portable camp erected Just south of town by the farm security
administration for migrant agricultural workers. Families live in small tents. The large tent
is used as an assembly and recreation hall. Tents with the boarded side walls are for the admin
istrative staff, camp manager, assistant camp manager and clerk, caretaker and employment
clerk. The shelter In the background Just left of center is the laundry room and to Its left may
be seen the hot water heating plant and shower room. The Pacific highway is in the back
ground. Confronted with the necessity of storing all their household belongings and doing their
cooking on their own equipment in front of their tents, these families have learned how to keep
house in small quarters. (Photo by Brainerd).
INSULT PETAJN. SAYS
Washington, Aug. 20. W)
Gaston Henry-Haye, the French
ambassador, sought today to as
suage American displeasure
with Vichy's collaboration with
Germany and -alcp laid before
Secretary" of State Hull k col
lection of American newspaper
cartoons which he said were in
sulting to Marshal Petain, chief
of state at Vichy.
The ambassador told newspa
permen he had explained in a
call on Hull that there was
nothing in Petain's recent
speech on Europe's future which
would bear out fears expressed
in this country that France in
tended to turn the French fleet
or French colonial possessions
over to Germany.
The cartoon collection was
exhibited, Henry-Haye said, 'be
cause their publication is not
helpful in maintaining the
friendly relations that have ex
isted for 180 years between the
United States and France."
EXPORT CONTROL
MAY COVER ALL
Washington, Aug. 20 (JP)
Government control of exports,
now covering 80 per cent of all
commodities, soon may be ex
panded to blanket all shipments
abroad, authoritative quarters
disclosed today.
Further, these sources said, a
complete embargo is likely for
certain materials.
Officials explained that ex
port control was required to as
sure adequate supplies of raw
materials and manufactured ar
ticles in this country for nation
al defense and everyday life,
and to enable the United States
to fulfill commitments to Great
Britain, China, Soviet Russia,
and the Latin American repub
lics.
GREY NAMED ON
NR COMMITTEE
Chicago. Aug. 20 'JPi The
National Editorial association to
day announced committee ap
pointments for its national con
vention here October 22-23.
In addition to W. Verne Me
1 Kinney, the Argus, Hillsboro,
! Dr. Mrlif tam4 m. n--K. I w
man of the advertising commit
tee, the Pacific northwest com
mittee appointments Include:
Membership McKinney; A.
E. Voorhies, the Courier, Grants
Pass, Ore. .Voorhies and Wolfe
also serve on the Pan-American
relations committee).
Consumer education Herb
Grey, -advertising manager, the
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.;
Harris Ellsworth, the News Re
view, Roseburf, Ore.
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DETROIT WORKERSIIRAN GIVENWEEKTO
IATF TO IflRS AS
Detroit, Aug. 20. (JPh-Street
car and bus operators of Detroit's
municipal transportation system
struck suddenly, this morning
leaving some 400,000 office, and
factory workers to seek emer
gency means of getting to work.
Thousands were delayed.
The strike brought from May
or Edward J. Jeffries, youthful
head of the city administration,
a threat to "call upon the might
of government" to end the tie-
up.
"You can t run the city of
Detroit," he warned leaders of
the American Federation of La
bor here at a conference.
Refuse to Listen
The mayor suggested a plan
whereby the strikers return to
their Jobs pending formal arbi
tration by a city-appointed
board, by AFL officers refused
to hear it.
"We're not ready to listen to
anything like that," one union
official declared.
A spokesman for the striking
union said the walkout was in
tended to enforce the union's de
mand for recognition as sole
bargaining agent for the oper
a tors.
Mayor Jeffries retorted that
this was in effect a demand for
a closed shop, and that "we can't
grant that.
"When are you going back to
v.ork?" was the mayor's opening
remark at this morning's meet
ing with union leaders. "We ve
got some state laws and some
city laws and you fellows are a
little off base this time."
There was no immediate
answer from the unionists.
Washington, Aug. 20. UP)
President Roosevelt has formally
asked both sides in the 13-day
old strike at the Federal Shipbuilding-
and Drydock company.
Kearny, N. J, to put the im
portance of national defense
ahead of their points of differ
ence and "return to your work
at once."
The strike, affecting 17.000
workers, has tied up work on
$493,000,000 worth of navy and
merchant marine shipbuilding
since August 7.
OIL SHORTAGE ON
IN EASTERN AREA
Washington, Aug. 20. Pi
Reporting that the long-predicted
oil shortage in the east fi
nally had arrived. Ralph K.
Davies, deputy petroleum coor
dinator, said today storks of
gasoline in the East had dropped
to a reserve supply sufficient
only for approximately ten days.
Davies spoke of a "perilous
situation," reemphaslzing the
warning from the office of price
control and civilian supply that
more drastic measures might be
necessary beyond the limited
fasoliM rationing now in effect.
QUIT
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London, Aug. 20 (JP) Britain
has given Iran (Persia) about a
week in which to answer a Brit
ish-Russian request for expul
sion' of 3.000 German tourists
and technician said to ' have
filtered into the country, author
itative quarters said today.
They regarded this as suffici
ent time for Iran to reply.
Although these sources insist
ed that Britain had not sent an
ultimatum on the issue, British
and Russian troops were report
ed poised on Iran s frontiers
ready for possible direct action
if the Iranian government
should fail to satisfy the aUied
governments..
Press dispatches from Teheran
said Iran was speeding defense
measures and had called up
three additional army classes,
increasing the strength of the
army from 120,000 to 200,000
men.
U. S. PREPARES FOR
LOANS TO RUSSIA
Washington, Aug. 20. (Ph-
Jesse Jones, federal loan admin
istrator, said today he was pre
pared to lend money to Russia
to finance war supply purchases
in this country.
Jones said a loan to Russia
was more likely than lend-lease
aid, once Russia runs out of cash
to pay for purchases. He said
he did not know how long the
sovietr cash would last.
"If the administration policy
Is to help Russia and she is un
able to pay cash," Jones said, "I
think we (the federal loan
agency which includes the re
construction finance corpora,
tion), can find some way to help.
"I think it would be a loan.
rather than lend-lease."
ORDER ISSUED FOR
Washington, Aug. 20. ItP)
Jesse Jonea, federal loan admin
istrator, announced today the
government would build, at a
cost of $52,000,000 aluminum
plants in Arkansas, New York,
and the Bonneville dam area in
order to produce metal for the
manufacture of bombers.
The projects were undertak
en, Jones told reporters, at the
request of the OPM and the
army as part of a recently an
nounced plan designed to double
the aluminum capacity of the
country.
The $52,000,000 announced
today is to be for plants to be
built by and operated by the
Aluminum Company of America
but actually owned bjr the gov
ernment .
Medf Of J
Unchanged Says Sen. McNary
HIGH SCHOOL MAY
FOR FRUITW1UP
Supt Hedrick Plans Survey
First of September to
Determine Advisability
Although Medford senior high
school, along with the Junior
high school and the four grade
schools, is scheduled to open for
the 1941-42 school year Monday,
September 8. E. H. Hedrick.
superintendent, announced today
the possibility that its opening
might be delayed one or two
weeks to enable students em
ployed in the local fruit industry
to complete their Jobs before re
suming their studies after the
three-month summer vacation.
Hedrick said that a labor sur
vey would be made the week of
September 1, and that If a suf
ficient number of high school
students were found to be em
ployed in orchards or packing
houses the high school opening
would be set back to correspond
with the completion of the fruit
harvest.
Number to Govern
The school superintendent ex
plained, however, that if the
number of students engaged In
the harvest was not sufficient
to warrant a postponed high
school opening, classes would
begin on September 8 as sched
uled. "In case not a large number
of students are employed and
the high school opens as sched
uled." Hedrick said, "the stu
dents that are working will be
asked to complete their employ
ment and will be given special
consideration to make up the
school work they missed when
they do return to their classes."
Hedrick emphasized that, un
til and unless otherwise announ
ced, high school would open on
September 8, and that regard
less of the outcome of the labor
survey Junior high school and
the grade schools would open
as planned, on September 8.
Buildings nenovaiea
All school buildings have been
cleaned and renovated for the
opening. The Junior high school
office has been remodeled and
enlarged, with partitions being
eliminated and the counter
lengthened to provide for ad
ditional space for the storage of
records. The Junior high school
cooking, sewing, art and other
rooms have been painted and
completely renovated.
No extensive changes or re
pairs have been made in the
grade schools, while at the sen
ior high school the shops have
been remodeled and enlarged
to take care of the aviation
sheet metal classes and a class
in welding, which has been ap
proved by the government and
will start In 10 days or two
weeks.
41 5 PLANES USE
AIRPORT IN JULY
Medford municipal airport
was used by 415 planes In July,
Thomas A. Culbertson, Jr., air
port superintendent reported to
the city council last night.
The planes were classified as
follows: 212 United Air Lines,
135 U. 8. army and 68 private.
Total receipts for the . month
were listed as $541.13.
Mr. Cutbertson's report point
ed out that during July the
Southern Oregon College of Ed
ucation, Ashland, Inaugurated
new ground and flight Instruc
tion courses, enrolling 22 stud
ents under the civilian pilot
training program of the civil
aeronautics administration.
In July W, G. Robinson of
Mount Shasta City, California
bought a new Beechcraft air
plane which he is hangarlng at
the Medford airport, this bring
ing toll the number of private
planes now kept at the local
field, th report stated.
Cantonment Outlook
I baseball
American
R.
H.
3
Philadelphia 0
Chicago 9 9 0
Harris, and Wagner; Rigney
and Tresh,
R. H. E.
Boston
9
..11
12
12
St. Louis ....
Grove, M. Harris, Dobson and
Peacock; Auker and Swift.
National
First game:
H.
5
3
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Van der Meer and Lombardl;
Hoerst, Pearson and Warren.
Second game:
R.
3
0
West;
H.
6
6
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
E. Riddle and
Melton
and Livingston.
First game: R. H. E.
St. Louis 2 6 2
Boston 0 8 0
White and Cooper; Johnson
and Masi, Berres.
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh 6 6 5
Brooklyn 7 7 1
Sewell, and Lopez; Higbe,
Casey, Allen and Owen, Franks.
R. H. E.
Chlcaao 9 16 . 0
New York 4 8 3
Eaves and McCullough; Hub
bell, Carpenter, Adams, Wlttig,
and Denning. .
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ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
IN GIANT WAR GAMES
Elma. Wash, Aug. 20. W
Grays harbor counted its first
fatality in the war games last
night when Tommy Kazaxi, a
soldier of Japanese ancestry.
died of Injuries suffered yes
terday when an army truck
rolled over a steep curve on a
county road near Elma.
He was with the 17th Infan
try from Fort Ord, camped at
Brady to represent the "enemy .
With The Army In Southwest
Washington, Aug. 20. (P) The
7th and 40th divisions from Cali
fornia set up command posts on
the battle front near Winlock,
Lewis county. Wash., today as
thousands of troops Joined the
50,000 soldiers already on the
front in the west's biggest war
maneuvers.
The 50,000 California soldiers
will extend the battle front
down through southwest Wash
ington for about 100 miles.
E
Berlin,
Aug. 20. (JPI The
government tonight
German
handed the Cuban charge d'af
faires a note ordering the Cuban
consular staff to leave the coun
try, Dienst A us Deutschland re
ported. (Cuba has ordered expulsion
of seven German consuls and
one Italian, and Germany earli
er had responded by demanding
withdrawal of Cuban consuls
from German-occupied terri
tories. Expulsion of Cuban con
suls from Germany herself car
ries the retaliation a step fur
ther.) Rome, Aug. 20. CP) The
Italian government tonight or
dered all Cuban consulates In
Italy closed by Sept. 3.
A communique stated that the
Cuban government on Aug. 15
asked the Italian consul gen
eral to leave Cuba by Sept. 3
and that the Italian government
consequently was making a sim
ilar request.
Set Salem Milk Heartaf
Salem, Aug. 20. JP The
state milk control board an
nounced today It would hold a
hearina here next week to con
sider increasina Salem's retail
milk price from 10 to 11 cents
quart.
REASSURANCE IS
RECEIVED AFTER
E
Long Distance Call to Wash
ington Prompted by Story
in Portland Newspaper,
There has been no essential
change In the general situation
so far as establishment of an
army cantonment here is con
cerned, Sen. Charles L. McNary
told a representative of the ci
vilian coordinating board in a
long distance telephone call to
Washington, D. C, today.
There seems no reason to
doubt that when congress eon,
venes after the present "vaca
tion" funds will be appropriated
for the Medford cantonment.
Senator McNary said, though he
emphasized that the situation
had changed neither one way
nor the other, meaning that con
struction of the proposed camp
was still on an "If, as and when".
basis as it has been all along.
Story Prompts Call
The telephone call to Wash
ington was prompted by a atoiy
In the Oregon Journal, PorU
land, this morning which cre
ated another cantonment furor
here by stating that Sen. Mo
Nary had learned that "no Ore
gon cantonment site is slated fotf
immediate construction."
The Portland newspaper story
said that the army, in alloca
tion of funds just made avail
able by congress, "has picked
four locations and has given pri
ority to Augusta, Ga Neosho.
Mo, Fort Smith, Ark, and Lorn
poc, Cal.
These places had been consid
ered and selected six months be
fore Medford was ever thought
of as a cantonment site, the co
ordinating board representative)
quoted Sen. McNary In their
telephone conversation. So far
as Lompoe Is concerned, the)
contract for construction of th
camp there was let August 15.
The coordinating board added
that there was no Justification
in drawing conclusions about
the proposed Medford canton
ment from statements regarding
other camps.
Charged with reckless driving
following an accident at Front
and Sixth streets late Tuesday
afternoon in which his machine)
was struck by a hit-run driver
and in turn crashed into three)
other cars, Frank Seneski, 54,
of Trail, was scheduled to ap
pear in city court this afternoon.
Nobody was injured and damaga
to the automobiles Involved was)
said to be minor.
City police reported that 8a
neski's car, after being bumped
by a machine that failed to stop
afterwards, careened across the)
street and hit a car being oper
ated by Mrs. Eva Grigsby of
Jacksonville, after which th
Seneski auto bounced off and
struck the left rear fender and
bumper of a parked ear owned
by E. T. Howe of Route 3. Fol
lowing this, the Seneski vehicle)
struck the front bumper and
fender of a car driven In the)
opposite direction by Dr. W. P.
Holt of 11 Corning Court.
Sportive Whale
Danger Fi$hermert
Reedsport, Aug. 20. UP)-
Whales, following pilchard
run. were playing today off the)
Umpqua river mouth and Win
chester bay, so close to land that
commercial fishermen have had
to use care In avoiding them.
Walter Kuck, putting out to
sea yesterday, was forced to stop
his engine and ahift his course
as a huee whale came up to blow
near the south jetty and bell
buoy.
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